General Reading List
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison
No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of a Loved One, by Carla Fine
Dying To Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After A Suicide, by Beverly Cobaine
Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide, by Christopher Lukas
My Son…My Son…: A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide, by Iris Bolton
When A Man Faces Grief/A Man You Know Is Grieving, by James E. Miller
A Grief Like No Other: Surviving the Violent Loss of Someone You Love, by Kathleen O’Hara
A New Normal: Learning to Live with Grief and Loss, by Darlene Cross MS MFT
The Construction of Meaning Following Parental Suicide: Grief of children following parental suicide, by Dorothy Ratnarajah.
The Forgotten Mourners: Sibling Survivors of Suicide, by John’s Sister
When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter, by Judith R. Bernstein, Ph.D.
The Worst Loss: How Families Heal from the Death of a Child, by Barbara D. Rosof
Life After the Death of My Son: What I’m Learning, by Dennis L. Apple
A Broken Heart Still Beats: after Your Child Dies, by Anne McCracken
The Mourning Book: The Most Comprehensive Resource Offering Practical and Compassionate Advice on Coping With All Aspects of Death & Dying, by Helen Fitzgerald
A Guide For The Bereaved Survivor, by Robert Baugher, Ph. D.
After Suicide: A Ray of Hope for Those Left Behind, by E. Betsy Ross
After The Darkest Hour, The Sun Will Shine Again: A parent’s guide to coping with the loss of a child, by Elizabeth Mehren
After The Death Of A Child, by Ann K. Finkbeiner
Aftershock: Help, Hope and Healing in the Wake of Suicide, by Candy Neely Arrington
An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, by Kay Redfield Jamison
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